The Mentalist 6x8 - Red John - Sheriff Thomas McAllister.

http://youtu.be/EsnqP1PummY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsnqP1PummY&feature=youtu.be

I vow never to watch anything That Heller does ever again. I can't after that. 

They should have treated the episode as a funeral. They should have alotted the time for going back and revisiting everything, the farm, Patricks family, maybe some stuff we hadn't seen before. RJ watching Jane on the news for the first time. It should have been a tribute to Red JOHN. Again he was the backbone of the show. it's makes no sense that it was all wasted. They obviously thought that Red John was not important enough to spend the time on.

 His Story should have been told. There should have been great imaginary, we have seen it before right. The pilot, Patrick standing outside the barn and the light showing the smiley. Well the same thing should have been done for Red John. They should have paralleled some of that stuff with Patrick Jane. just like Patrick was standing outside the barn they should have shown a flashback to Red John just after painting the smiley. They should have explained the cutting of the women's throats and related it to a back story maybe with his mother or a sister. Why does he seem to have a hatred for women mainly and left the copycat man killer alive?? They should have shown him using his skills, sneaking up on a victim or getting someone to kill themselves. it just takes quick flashbacks and it's about fitting everything tightly together. I am telling you I could have done a better job then Heller did.  

What they could have done was build him up as a god in the flashbacks where he was in his own territory surrounded by his followers. A skilled serial killer, smart and cunning. They could then stripped him of this with Jane having gotten the upper the hand with his phobia and shown that under it all he was just a man with no followers behind him. 

That's just me though. Wasted potential with this whole story.

I don't really understand why you all think that the episode sucks.

Although McAllister wasn't my favorite Red John when this season started, this season has clearly been built to fit McAllister for Red John. I thought this entire season was pretty bad, mainly because it lacks Patrick's brilliance. But this episode itself wasn't bad, and it fits perfectly to the story. I agree that there are still A LOT of questions that must be answered, and I really hope they will be. I also agree that several dialogs were pretty cheesy and "funny", but not enough to prove the episode being fake. You might think that it still lacks Patrick's brilliance, but it doesn't. He knew who Red John was AT LEAST in the previous episode (as I and many others "knew").

A lot of people seems to believe that this release was fake, which is not impossible, although unlikely. 
If we assume that Red John is someone on the list (which most people assumes), this ending is clearly better than either Bertram, Smith, Haffner or Stiles being Red John. So, that leaves the only possibly better ending with Partridge as Red John, which I still might have preferred. But anyways, I'm not upset with this ending either, not yet anyways, because I still think that everything will be explained.

For those of you who still hope that Partridge is more involved than it seems, I'll just say that it's possible that it was him in the last scene of the episode (at least looked that way in the crappy webrip I watched). It's a reach, and it's more likely just a tease, but still.

I can only advice you to watch the episode again, because it's really not THAT bad.

From a badass cold blooded killer to a pussy calling 911 and begging for his life. 

I think this "Pink John" t-shirt is perfect
http://teespring.com/PinkJohn

From a badass cold blooded killer to a pussy calling 911 and begging for his life. 

I think this "Pink John" t-shirt is perfect

I'm positive this is the real thing- suggestions to the contrary reek of denial, but that was bound to happen no matter who ended up being Red John. It's understandable and to be expected.

I actually enjoyed the reveal, and thought the acting was quite good. There seems to be a general issue with two things- the lack of explanation (which is definitely a weakpoint here; my suspicion is that Heller wanted an ending where Red John was forced to recognize that he wasn't a particularly special human being, and Jane's lack of interest is a rather extraordinary step in that direction), and his begging and dialing of 911, which again, seems to be a sign of human weakness. He overplayed his hand, and the writing and acting did a good job of dealing with that in a realistic human way. The whole 'I'm a real psychic' bit is a good last jab at Jane, especially if he doesn't know one of the tricks. Now he might have to wonder down the road.

Red John being dead doesn't necessarily mean that all the information is sealed forever. I suspect we'll never learn how he got the list as a feature of the writing, but Visualize is certainly still running around. Would be very unsurprised if they had a curiosity as to how their leader and a presumably high ranking member managed to be killed inside Jane's house, and that would open some avenues for flashbacks and exploring McAllister's connections. There are, of course, other ways to do it as well. But as an actual ending to Red John's arc, the manner of his death and his reveal- I was satisfied, at least.